harvey danger - flagpole sitta

haha, yes! i kept getting emails from a pr flack saying "video for "Flagpole Sitta" starring Rachael Leigh Cook" and i finally watched it. what a world.

now i'm almost tempted to re-watch 'she's all that'. Not sure I can take prinze jnr's hacky sack demo tho.

Hahahahahah

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhahahahahaha!

OK I've never actually heard the whole song but ever since Peep Show started up again I've been singing the parts of it that are featured on that programme over and over again. I'm going to go and check out the full version right now

Well that was pretty much what I expected. I imagine it would be a lot of fun to dance drunk to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgmC_USeoM

was gonna say wasn't "Flagpole Sitta" in the trailer for a Rachael Leigh Cook movie but i guess i confused Antitrust with Disturbing Behavior

the circle was almost complete

Great song. Fuck you trendy haters

trendy haters! i actually am ok with the song, just think a slowed down, super sensitive version is hilarious.

It really suffers from not having the "I wanna publish zines and rage against machines" couplet.

haha i kept waiting for that line to hit

i know! what a cop out!

My rage was probably directed at self only Tyler. No offence. I returned to their second(?) album recently thanks to a mention upthread. It sounded decent.

jesus what is this please tell me it's a joke

this is seriously the first thing i've seen in a long time where i can't really tell whether it's funny on purpose or not

i also enjoyed the three seconds of "flagpole sitta" featured in the film disturbing behavior (which i saw at the dollar theater becuz i had a crush on katie holmes).
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, July 4, 2005 8:10 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Running underground with the moles
Digging Holmes

lol

this song fuckin owns

this song sucks forever and i hate it. hated it then, and i hate it now.

...spoken like someone who does own a TV.

(tbh the lyrics are bad and dumb, but i do no sing them)

*not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g

I've never seen the video before, lead singer has a somehow-even-nerdier Craig Finn stage presence.

I remember enjoying this but after that viewing I'm leaning toward VG OTM.

Someone's really missing a beat not putting together a Marcy Playground/Harvey Danger/Tracy Bonham tour.

This song is annoying. Also, it kicks ass. I unabashedly love it.

IIIIIII wanna publish ziiiiiines

Hasn't enough time passed that we can all relax the cringe and just luxuriate in the awesomeness of this song.
If you're bored then you're boring.

this song rips and i want to do it at a packed karaoke night right now

I've never seen the video before, lead singer has a somehow-even-nerdier Craig Finn stage presence.

I remember at the time thinking that he reminded me of Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies.

song is a congealed blockage from a deviated septum

Wish Johnny Cash had covered this one, slow and somber.

had to stop the video at curves of your body / feel a bit naughty 🤢

i swear they played it on morning “alternative” radio for 12 months straight

it was borderline abuse

"Run it up the flagpole" is such a 90s ad agency / James Carville phrase (appropriately played with in this song).

don't wanna think about that lead singer playing with anything

song is still played on radio constantly, very much part of the oppressive 'safe list'

When this song comes up, I think of the review (Charles Aaron in Spin?, who knows) that had a line like – "He claims 'I don't even own a TV,' which means he must have copped those Elvis Costello moves while doing laundry at his parents' house."

i have now got this bile stuck in my head on repeat but in the same way it always used to be which is (on a loop)
“paranoia paranoia everyone is coming to get meeee / dat da data dat da data data da da da daaaaaada (but in like a Jerry Lewis bellhop nasal whine)

kill me god

For years I woke up every single day with this song stuck in my head.

the part that gets stuck in my head is 'butnooneeverdoes!'

vg otm

good hate watch fodder (todd in the shadows - "one hit wonderland: harvey danger").

I mean

I love this song and always have.

Eazy OTM about a Johnny Cash cover

fun fact: Bean Dad was once a touring member of this band

noooooooooo

I really hate this song!

Absolutely love it--had it on my decade-end list. I published a zine, I hate(d) Rage Against the Machine, I did and do own a TV.

Reviews from 1998, the last issue of said fanzine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001120133200/http://www.popped.com/radioon/98/ro011.html

I can't help it and love this song. It does seem to be one of those songs that people either love or hate.